The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-10-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF In,srest Gathered from VarIou,
Quarters.

The steamer Great Eastern has been sold
at auction for $105, 900.
Thirty five persons were drowned when
tho Australian steamer Cheviot went down.
The Republicans of the Sixth Louisiana
District have nominated Judge John GOist
for Congress.
Argument before the New York Court of
Appeals in Sharp's case has been postponed
until the 2nh instant.
Beuiamin f. Culbcrson, n white man
from Anderson, is said to have left for parts
unknown, after dcfrauding his creditors.
A serious fire occurred at Syracuse, n.
Y, last night, the losses aggrcgating $500,
900.
Fair Cain, a stock broker of London, has
abSCondCd. His liabilities amount to about
$50, 600
Timothy Brothers, dry goods merchants
of Nashville, have made an assignment.
Liabilities about 100000.
There have been one death and three
new cases of yellow fever at Tampa, Fla,
since last report.
The remains of Gen. Judson Fitzpatrick
were buried at West Point yesterday with
imposing military honorS.
The sub-cOmmissioners under the Land
Act, sitting at Thurlcs, have in numerous
cases reduced rSnts from 40 to 80 per cent.
Michael Davitt was given a splendid re-
ccption upon his arrival at Queenstown
from New York.
A Tampa special reports fourteen cases
of fever, Including two colorcd, aud three
deaths The hospital is ready.
The application Of the Mayor of Boston
for r,cm bGrship in Massachusetts Charita-
blc Mechanics Association has been re-
icctCd.
The Georgia Legislature adjourned last
night after Il four months session. OF all
the public measures discussed none were
finally adopted.
At Portland, Nc, the extensive iohbing
has suspended payment and made an as,
signmcnt.
The American schooner Sarah +. Bird,
of Rockland, Me, lies dismastcd and sunk
outside between Pensacola and Pcrdido
bays. 10 lives lost.
The demonstrations of unemployed
worliiugmcn in London have become so
wurlil" that the police are called into active
aud almost constant service.
The Con>tantiuop'c police arc closing all
liqnor shops kept by Europeans, on the
ground that they arc dcmoraIizjug the
people.
RuSsim authorities arc debating the
question of increasing the duties on raw
cotton, cotton yarn, c flee clocks and jew
els.
The Chicago assembly of steam engineers
and beginners has withdrawn from the
knights Of Labor and formed IN indie
pendent order.
William Walker, importer Of dress tripl-
minBs 1t ~ broadway, New York, has
mad" an assignment. Liabilities 1928, 600,
assets 100000.
I!c4l:h Officer Smith, Of New York,
says ti.Grc is no cholera aboard the BliGn-
MIA, bat it is thought That he is trying to
conceal the truth.
The eleventh annual session Of the Con-
grCss Of the Protestant Episcopal Church
OF the Unitcd States opened yesterday
morning at Christ Church, in Louisville,
Kentucky.
y bronze equestrian statue Of General
George L,urdCp, erected in FUirmOuut Park,
Phiia icipliu w&s unveiled yesterday after
noon VEIN appropriate p0mp and ceremony.
Il,'' las n genuine Southern welcome
extend, / to President Cleveland at Allan
ta Jr>l. .lday, Notwithstanding the inclcm-
u"cy If The weather.
= Wichita The stock yards were totally
H,'d.';,' '.,I,t,S, lne yituS "nH hotEl
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me cohVGnuon Oh thc brotherhood OF
ioo nSS'I ok i'S business
.r I,v "i'ii ooo ueitS"'cS pres
GU, nv oN'''7' a. >'''c'
1t Is StHtca lhat H,'Ssia intends to reduce
ln!Htt unlles on EhGliSh goods 20 per
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" ,''''', nv :" ~ "c ''':'"e'
ne itGV. Charies A. Stakei y, pastor or
Lpc CIaucI square bapllSL Church, OF
Cn4'Ic&'oh, mas DCen called 10 the pasloratc
OF thC FIRST BapuSI Church OF Washing
toh' ~ =.
The Dublin police have warned Irish
news agents against exposing papers or
placArds containing any references to meet
in.S of suppressed branches of the Ma
tioual League.
The Socialists of Paris have sent fratcr-
nal congratulations to their brethren in
London and Chicago on their courageous
attitude toward the capitalists.
A terrible epidemic of tyDhOid fever IL
rauin% in Iron Mountain. a yillage on the
McI"innncc River, in Michigan. There
were -JU cases IN the town on Tuesday.